My G25 shifter is fading away (no reverse, 5th gear doesn't always engage). I can't stand the clicky'ness of it anyway.

I would prefer a new shifter, instead of a replacement.

The G25 shifter is fairly realistic compared to road cars, although from my expereince in purpose built track cars the gear leaver usualy feels very short (to the point of selecting 6th instead of fourth) and has a more "clunky" feel.

The Lightning SST seems a good choice, although I'm unaware of any dealers in England as the import taxes and duties from USA are a bit high. http://www.sim-gear.com/794354.html

The Act Labs shifter is a bit too large and ugly for my liking.

I've also just remembed, I recently installed some heavy Symantic anti-virus software. Will try dissabling.

Unfortunetely changing the hot key has no affect.

I have just realized the hot key may not be having an affect with any software (will check this later), as the other programs I use with the TrackIr are all Simbin, which allow you to set a key or button within the Simbin software.

I've also checked the "f lock" on the keyboard and even tried using a mouse button.

There is just the Logitech software running in background for the mouse, keyboard and wheel.

Using the default as F12 used to work, but a differently assigned button (such as on the wheel, I had doubled checked to make sure nothing was assigned in LFS to this) never worked.

The only changes or updates I can think were made since the problem started is LFS and the new Vista service pack.

I'm using Vista, with the latest version of LFS but the centering function is no longer working with LFS.

Weather assigning in the TrackIR software a set key, or a wheel button the TrackIR does not centre.

It is working fine with all other programs and the blue LED is lit when running LFS.

Any suggestions?

Cheers.

mmm. found a dds converter, no matter what size you have the texture (including 1024) it still does not get larger. It will repeat as a patten (the original was 64).

Its not something I know much about at all, so I can only asume its something to do with the modeling.

All we need now is for someone to change the dds file of the front grill.

I would add the number 7 but I have no idea how this is done

Quote from Leprekaun :

Hi all! this is my first public skin release. I've never actually released any of my personal skin designs but hopefully, will be doing that more often .

Well, 2007 marks the 50th year anniversary of the infamous Super 7. To commemorate the anniversary, I designed a skin which is for the LX4 and LX6. The idea behind it was simplicity so I didn't use any designs or many logos. I simply used the 50th year anniversary logo, Caterham logo, Dunlop logo and then just used 2 colours (black and beige) for the car. Enjoy!

Preview pic:



Now, after all that skin work, I wanna have a go of this online

A quick one, looks great with Michelin tyres.

Feel free to modify.

I didn't really get much time to change many settings as it broke after just 10 or so minutes of using it.

Everything in the prevew screens seemed fine, which is why I assumed it would work fine, until a tried some games.

I'll assign a button on my wheel for centering. In the mean time I will have to makeshift with some selloptape and hope it stays on.:scared:

The tripod designed to grip an LCD monitor, has completely come off the tracking camera. There is a small plastic rod which seems to have split causing the camera to break off on its own (presumably heated up).

Both the retailer and Natural Point have responsed.

The retailer seemed to ignore the fact the I can no longer use the unit as the camera has come off. Natural Point just want to no the serial number and where I purchesed it from etc.

I'm hoping Natrural Point will respond with something positve.

I'm using a 32" LCD TV, I tried placing the tracker in the centre and on the left hand side. When it was still in one piece, the software showed only 3 green dots.

I used NetKar Pro which seemed fairly smoothish, but would not properly return the a centre position. GTR2 just went crazy and most of the time I was rolled on the side looking at the floor.

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http://www.caterham.co.uk/asse ... l/experience/circuit.html

Im interested in the full day, the two closest circuits (no more than 2 hours drive) are Silverstone and Oulton Park

But which one should I choose?

I have only drivin on a race circuit once before, Formula Ford 1800cc around Donnington, but there wasn't much training involved other than a few laps in an MG with an instructor (who thought it wasn't my first time as I was heal-toeing).

Or does anyone have any other suggestions?

Quote from AndroidXP :

Well, my wheel is slightly noisier when turning left so I thought of replacing it, but when I heard that earth-shattering sound on that video, I realised I actually have a rather quiet one, so I left it as is. I've also heard from some users here that the replacement was actually louder than the original, or had other faults, so I won't bother at all, I think.

I presume you mean this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... p;mode=related&search= ARGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

In the control panel options, tick the box to have the default spring for non-ffb games perminantly on, but set the slider to 0%.

The default spring is always turned on when nothing is using the FFB, but I've noticed not every game does disables this, such as LFS (for me anyway).

You will also be having the actual feed back from LFS and notice more dampening without this crappy default spring getting in the way and your lock will feel a lot more solid.

Quote from tade :

I bought a G25 last week and I'm still thoroughly testing it. But I have a lock-problem and I want to ask your advice.

I lock the wheel at -lets say- 300 degrees. Both at windows controller properties and at wingman profiler. I try it, I move it left and right and it's working OK, it does lock where it's supposed to be. Then I launch LFS, go to Options->Control and lock the wheel at 300 degrees there too. It works.

I try to race and I'm in the pits, standing still. The wheel is still working perfectly fine, locking at 300 degrees. But when I hit the gas and reach eg. 30+km/h the lock doesnt work anymore!! The wheel can rotate freely up to 900 degrees. Although it has no effect to the game, since at 300deg the virtual wheel locks. So I have to brake the car, reach no more than 5-10 km/h and only then the G25 locks itself back to 300 deg.

The same thing happens with GTR2, race-WTCC, rFactor etc so I dont think its a game issue or settings. Any advice please? I hope it's not a faulty wheel...

Had the urge to personalize my own

Yes I am using a SATA hard drive, also checked I've got 800mhz DDR2

Looks like I will be buying a new motherboard and processor, I can build PCs from scratch.

Will choose and Intel motherboard with Duel Core 2 2.13Ghz E6400

Coming to around £250 which is under my budget leaving some cash for Xmas beveragies

Looked at the specs very closely, theres only a small drop in performance compared to the 7900GTO.

Its a shame the 7800gtx is now discontinued as I could have gone for SLI later.

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Quote from glyphon :

left and right arrow keys...one problem with your plan though...i believe itunes has to be in focus for these to work...which makes the process even more orquid than the keyboard shortcut keys

It works fine when skipping tracks with I-tunes in background (using my keyboard). I presume it must be the same keystroke, or its in the Setpoint drivers.

Will give it a go later

Does any one know the WinXP shortcut keys for next / previous track (not lfs keys)?

Will use the Logi profiler to assign it to the buttons on the shifter. Always have I-tunes running in the background, the shortcut keys on the keyboard are a bit orquid to use when racing.

Yeay!!! :haha:

Quote from Paul_McCluskey :

99p delivery, you'll be waitin a while, mine is on next day delivery

Checked this before ordering, gets sent Parcel Force 24 hour.

Item DetailsDescriptionStatusDespatch DateQntyValueLogitech G25 Steering Wheel Being Picked Today 1 £189.99 Sub Tot:£189.99Delivery:£0.99Total£190.98

I see html didn't work, order status page saying its being picked now.

Looks like I'll be cancelling the Gameplay order for Logitech.

Gameplay are saying another 7 days:arge:

A while ago someone posted a link to a logitech survey, where you got a discount code. Does any one still have this (I can no longer find it) as gameplay are very certain on their late release date?

I took the cover off the card, there was a cloged ball of furr wraped in the fan and heat sink. Much quieter now

Only a minor improvement to frame rates, card is much more stable though.

Would duel core be compatiible on my current motherboard (I'm sure I've seen a socket type for one that rings a bell) or are only brand new motherboards compatilble?

I only purchesed my cpu a year ago and it was the best bits I could buy at that time (custom made, had someone to construct it for me.) Unforunetely can't use sli due to one PCI-E slot).

So all in all, does a more poweful processor actually increase frame rates? I thought most games rely on the graphics card and RAM, I have no speed issues and no stuttering at all, loading times are quick. Its just the frame rate.

I tried both drivers that came with the card, and from Nvidias site. The downloaded one is much better.

I've not hear of Driver Cleaner but I've got registry cleaner software which I used after uninstalling the drivers.

I'll try again with that software.

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Only £140.41 !!!!!